Saturday news
Today is the 16th of April, 2022. Doing nothing, writing about nothing, and yesterday’s visuals.
I was asked today if I have a writer’s block. “I don’t have it, because I’m a journalist, not a writer”, - I’ve replied. I don’t invent the story, I choose the news or the purpose and let myself think. But I have a problem with an appropriate subject to develop. By “appropriate” I mean not just the subject but also the time for writing about it and the time for publishing. Today is the day when I don’t want to talk about anything serious. Tomorrow is Easter. I want the night to be quiet and calm. Peaceful. Full of hope. Love. Later there will be another Easter, so I’ll have another moment to reflect on. How strange it sounds, indeed.
Every time I need to remind myself about the holidays with the same names but different dates. Every time I need to remember that my readers live in different parts of the world and open my posts maybe at the same moment, but at different times. Anyone can open my email in 20 minutes and that will be in my tomorrow, at the same time other my readers will be in my yesterday. A miracle. One time point - different time zones. Time and space travel, isn’t it?
Time. Have you noticed that we are living in the moment when the present, looking back in the past for norms and lifestyle, moral values, borders and order, and the present, looking into the future for the challenges, new freedoms, new dimensions for the physical world, identities, moral definitions, collapsed. Two radically different systems suddenly became visible and incompartable.
In politics it’s nationalists movements, populists in power, borders raising back again, the fear of nuclear war and so on. On the other side - social networks and freedom of speech, freedom of financial movements, unregulated worldwide virtual space, freedom of self-identification that defines new forms of the society, sustainable lifestyle and new ethics. In economics, that's old bank systems and old energy resources, brands with strong national dominance that lobbying their interests, holding the development of the global economy, decentralised cryptocurrencies, alternative energy, alternative transport, medical innovations that threaten the old pharmacs and so on.
Even in everyday life, in Moscow I can go to buy groceries (like today) from one store, supermarket to another, but what I usually did before for a few years now - I could order everything online and everything would be delivered the same day. All that without direct human contact. In Lucca that is impossible because most people living there can’t imagine or can’t understand they can do the same. They are very attached to their lifestyle, to the old habits that unfortunately feels like walking dead’ world. Even COVID didn’t change anything.
So there’re mirrors within mirrors within mirrors, represent the nature of reality or the idea that each of our consciousness is a reflection of the one cosmic one.
We are at war right now, not just with the system that isn't effective anymore. The states are fighting for the influence over the territories that don’t really matter, instead of fighting for the human minds and their hearts. Instead of working on the new markets, integrating the whole world into something overall, really stable and prosperous. When responsibility for the future is truly spread among everyone as well as freedom to influence on our own lives belong to us only. The challenges we face are global - climate warming, COVID, reformation of energetic systems, reformation of trade relationships and so on.
We are stuck in a strata society where everyone has a particular place and status. Meanwhile the marks of those are easy to fake, because those are not real anymore. We are mixed together, we buy, eat, walk more or less at the same places. Information is accessible for everyone. We meet online and find each other attractive, interesting or not virtually - only our mind matters, maybe the way we look. That is enough for relationships.
Even the sense of family and its purpose has changed, the agreements made 10-20 years ago are lost their values, not because of the love/not love, but because the base of the institute when one provides for another, or one needs to have a particular status of another, or life itself as someone’s half isn’t suitable anymore. Children can be raised when parents are happily not living together, or they are the same sex, or they are more than two, or they are a traditional couple with officially independent sexual life. One parent isn’t even a thing anymore, it’s perfectly ok. And children have rights to be more than just boys and girls, they can be girls being born as boys, or on the contrary, or even refuse to choose the side and be none or both.
A huge shift in the mentality that is impossible to box back into the old world coffins. Everything is in crisis, maybe, because that was inevitable. Maybe because the same shifts happened before and will happen again, if we survive now the possibility of nuclear war and climate change warning signs. Or maybe we need a global catastrophe to get rid of the old standards and watch them buried. I hope we don’t. I hope the digital age will take after the post-industrial era.
Can’t believe we need wars and pandemic for that each time. It’s like God (or Universe) kicks us screaming “Move on, humanity. It’s time, can’t you see it?”.
A digest from my feed for April 15th, 2022
6.30am zakharova_kaetano Good morning ☀️ How are you today? #haveagoodday here’s amazing portraits by @antonywilliams1410 for the #morninginspiration#morningmood #contemporaryart #painting #artofportrait #figurativeart#goodmorningart #goodmorningpost
9.00pm zakharova_kaetano I continue posting butterflies 🤷♀️ #finding@silviafurmanovich Marquetry butterfly earrings set in 18k gold with diamond and fire opal #artofjewellery #beautyofjewellery #jewelleryasinspiration #contemporaryjewellery #natureinspiredjewelry
11.45pm zakharova_kaetano I’m too tired to fight Instagram algorithms today… I’ll just post another favorite shoot as my #nightmood#fashionportrait #TildaSwinton for @dazed Summer 2017 Photography @jackdavisonphoto, styling @robbiespencer #artofphotography #beautyoffashion #beautyofwoman #fashionasinspiration #fashionstory #blackandwhitephoto
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